IT is worth reviewing the UK wind turbine contribution to our electrical
power needs over the present spell of not uncharacteristic, pleasant,
spring weather.

The UK has an installed windfleet capacity of just over 12,000 megawatts
(equivalent to approximately one-third of today’s power demand) and at
lunchtime today (April 22) its total output was 360mw.

This output is three per cent of our installed wind capacity and 1.04 per
cent of today’s UK power needs.

Wind output peaked around 4.75 per cent of our needs last Wednesday, April
15, and has barely exceeded 2.5 per cent since – in effect a total
week-long collapse in wind power output.

Imports from the French and Dutch via the only two interconnectors we have
to the European mainland have been at maximum capacity of 300mw over the
last week as we compensate for this collapse, importing cheaper, mostly
nuclear energy, from France.

And we are still being required to invest in wind.

And still the madness continues.

D B Watson,
Saviskaill, Langdales Avenue, Cumbernauld.


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